Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-13
SOUTHERN GL.EANINcS.

odyo SiuCc.
The Tennessee State fair will be held al
Nashville, commencing September 26 and
continuing to October /.
The Kentucky Knights of Labor polled a
big vote.
A great deal Of stock in new furnace al
Gadsden, Ala, was subscribed by the, la
dies of that enterprising little city.
Rev. Josiah Fort, of Fort Station, Tenn.
died few days ago. He was one of the
leading Baptist ministers in that section
The board of trustees of the Alabama
University for Colored People unanimous.
ly voted to locate the institution at Mont
gomery.
Kentucky holds her State fair Mt Lexing.
ton from August 30 to September 8.
The Sheffield & Birmingham (Ala) rail
road is pronounced by competent judges tc
be the finest one in the South. The bridge
work and ballast are said to be unexceled
One remarkable success of the prohibition
movement in Georgia is ascribed by the
Augusta Chronic le to the fact that it is
purely moral and economic and has nc
political significance.
Sol Snowdon, Moses Watkins and Alice
Cross, residing near HaydensviHe, KY,
were working in a tobacco field few days
ago when storm came up. They took
shelter under a tree, and had been there
but few minutes when bolt of light
ming flashed down, shattering the tree and
killing all three instantly.
The Georgia State fair, at Macon, begins
October "a and closes November 2.
Ewell Horner, a farmer living near
Whitesburg, Tenn, committed suicide q
few days ago. He had labored under q
slight alteration of mind for some time,
and being missed by the family, search
was instituted and his body found hanging
to beam in the barn. Horner was sixty
years old, and leaves family.
A number of roA;nent politicians are
under Indictment at Memphis.
New Orleans is making vigorous effort
to secure the meeting Of the National Ed
itorial Association in 1888.
Thirty-five business firms were burned
out at Tampa, Fla, a few days ago. Loss
$4,000; insurance, 81 300.
Colonel Edward Robertson, Congress.
man-elect from Louisiana, died few days
since at Baton Rouge.
Conductor Crawford, of the Louisville &,
Nashville railroad, was killed at Cave City,
Tenn, a few days ago. While he was
an obstruction and was fearfully crushed.
Joseph n. Rainey, the well-known col
ored ex-Congressman of South Carolina,
died at his residence in Georgetown, a. few
days since, Of congestive fever, after an
illness of five days. He leaves widow
and four children.
While taking supper in a restaurant at
Georgetown, KY, few nights ago, Tice
Hall was suddenly approached by Eugene
Fitzgerald, who sSot him'five times, killing
him. No cause is assigned for the killing.
Both are prominently connected. Fitz-
gerald was sent to Jail.
Veechel Fleener and Black fKendal, a
preachers son, had fight at Fleenerville.
KY, few days since. Fleener knocked
Kendall down, and the latter pulled out his
pistol and fired at Fleener twice. Both
shots missed their mark and took effect In
the abdomen and side of Blewett Fleener,
killing him almost instantly. He then
fired another shot, which struck George
Barton, producing flesh wound. Kendall
is in jail.
While Alexander Caruthers and Joseph
Scruggs, both colored, were engaged in q
scufile at Nashville, Tenn, a few nis hts
ago, Caruthers drew his pistol, which
was struck by Scruggs and discharged.
The bullet entered Scrugg's throat, pro-
ducing fatal wound. Caruthers was ar
rested and lodged in Jail.
Jim Beard and Hugh Greenwood, two
prominent citizens, of Guntersville, Ala,
quarreled a few nights ago, and Beard
tried to shoot Greenwood with gun.
Greenwood snatched the weapon from
Beard and shot him in the face and he
died in little while. Beard was county
treasurer.
An accident occurred few days ago
about mile west of Greenwood, Va, on
the Newport News & Mississippi Valley
railroad, by which a coach and two sleep.
ers of the Louisville express, going east,
were thrown from the track. B. w. PETIT
way, baggegemaster, of Richmond, was
killed and dozen passengers injured.
The first meeting Of the Interstate
Farmers Encampment of the States of
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee, was held at Spartanburg, S. c.,
last week, under favorable circumstances.
Addresses were made by prominent grange
men of Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Car
olina, Tennessee, and South Carolina.
Thursday was Governors day.
Intelligence comes from Manchester,
Clay County, Ky.,, that fierce fight oc-
Cured at the polls during the voting at
the recent election. The fight was par
-ticipated in by a score or more of men, all
having revolvers and bowie knives. Six
men were killed outright, and number
badly wounded.
A terrible domestic tragedy occurred a
few days ago at Bay st. Louis, Miss.
John Dadner, in fit of jealousy, beat his
wife almost to death with heavy stick.
When his wife, covered with blood, which
flowed from dozen severe cuts on the
head and neck, had fallen apparently life
less at his feet, he picked up pair of scis-
sors and drove one of the blades through
lis own heart, causing instant death. Mrs.
Ladner's recovery is doubtful.
On the 4th of last May Leroy Deaton,
living near Enochville, Rowan County, N.
c., WAS married to an estimable young
lady of the neighborhood, and in few
days thereafter the couple paid visit to
friends at Mooresville, Iredell County.
On .he night following the arrival at the
place some of the young friends of the
couple serenaded them after midnight.
One of the serenading instruments was a
zrum, which was thrust through an open
wiudow of tho room in which the COuDIe